Ubuntu Love Day Manila 2008 – On August 23, 2008, the Ubuntu Philippines LoCo, with University of the Philippines Department of Computer Science and Engineering, will hold an event for sharing experiences, learning, and meeting fellow enthusiasts

Invited 6 resource persons to share their experiences with Ubuntu in different areas of interest:

The Ubuntu 30 day challenge – Aileen Apolo (Google)

Ubuntu on virtualization and integrating to a Windows Network – Wallen Tan

Ubuntu: Saving lives (and then some) – Charo Nuguid

Choice is Good! Welcome to the Exciting, Productive and Wacky World of Ubuntu Derivatives – members of UP Linux Users’ Group (UnPLUG)

Each Ubuntu presentation and training session throughout the three days of LinuxWorld was heavily attended, especially compared to similar sessions elsewhere where relatively few attended.

Even though attendance was a bit sparse during this year’s LinuxWorld Conference & Expo when compared to previous years, the Canonical booth — where the latest Ubuntu Linux software was being shown off — still managed to draw a crowd.

Cancellation of Ubuntu Live might been a good thing

LinuxWorld had people who use many different distros, Ubuntu got exposed to them, not a self-selected group

Ultamatix, successor to Automatix released – it basically installs applications and commonly-used audio and video codecs.

Some of the applications might not be free or might having licensing issues

Or sometimes no one has gotten around to putting them into the repositories yet.

AX was very controversial. When it started out, made it easier for new Ubuntu users. But it would tended to cause people lots of pain eventually during upgrades.

Matt Zimmerman, Ubuntu CTO, said “I cannot recommend the use of this program, and systems where it has been used cannot be supported with a clean and official upgrade path.”

Matthew Garrett, who was on the Ubuntu Technical Board at the time, took a look at AX: “In its current form Automatix is actively dangerous to systems – ranging from damage to small items of user configuration, through removing user-installed packages without adequate prompting or warning and up to the (small but existing) potential to leave a system in an unbootable state.”

They were asked to work with Ubuntu developers, but not much progress was made.

Eventually Automatix got sold off and there was no release for 8.04

Ultamatix – Not done by the AX people

Ultamatix creator says he tried to fix the problems that Automatix had -

from man pages of force-yes: “This is a dangerous option that will cause apt to continue without prompting if it is doing something potentially harmful. It should not be used except in very special situations. Using force-yes can potentially destroy your system!”

It seems like when people are reviewing it, they are not looking under the hood. Specifically, a certain linux.com article which was a rave review of Ultamatix.